Developing talent. Strengthening employers.
A talent and leadership initiative connecting emerging professionals with the business leaders responsible for attracting and retaining them.
OneZone NextGen.
Unlike traditional young professional programs, OneZone NextGen is built as a two-sided talent ecosystem, serving both early-career professionals and the employers navigating today's talent challenges. The program is intentionally designed to bring these groups together, creating dialogue, understanding and shared solutions.
Who NextGen serves
- Emerging professionals: early-career professionals, new managers, and high-potential employees seeking leadership development, career acceleration, mentorship, and meaningful community connection
- Talent leaders and employers: CEOs, business owners, HR leaders, and people managers focused on improving retention, strengthening culture, navigating generational differences, and building internal leadership pipelines
Lead - leadership and professional growth
Developing leadership fundamentals, communication skills, financial literacy, and civic awareness for emerging professionals, while helping employers build coaching cultures, succession plans and leadership pipelines.
Connect - real relationships, not name tags
Purposeful peer groups, cross-generational mentorship, and access to executives, community leaders, and civic pathways. Designed for impact, not just networking.
Hire and retain - talent as a business strategy
Practical tools and conversations around hiring, retention, employer branding, workplace expectations, and workforce trends, paired with career navigation and long-term professional thinking.
Serve - civic and community leadership
Opportunities to engage with local government, serve on nonprofit boards, and participate in community problem-solving, building civic-minded professionals and engaged employers.
Programming
- A NextGen Leadership Series
- Small-group roundtables for both emerging professionals and employers
- A goal-based mentorship exchange
- An exclusive NextGen Employer Toolkit for member businesses
- Purposeful social events, service projects and civic engagement opportunities
The program will be guided by an advisory council of emerging professionals and business leaders.
Register your interest.
NextGen aligns with the chamber's wider workforce, leadership and advocacy work, including the OneZone Leadership Institute. Programming is being scheduled; tell the chamber you want to hear when it opens.